Factories of the

Future

Jane Keats 21 September 2011 Leeds Inventors Group

Summary

1.  Fab Labs 2.  Next Industrial Revolution 3.  Factory of the Future 4.  Open innovation 5.  Personal Experiences

Show of Hands

• Fab Lab • MakerBot, RepRap or Ulti-maker • Shop Bot • Ponoko

1. Fab Labs

Definition: Fab Labs are a global network of local labs, enabling invention by providing access for individuals to tools for digital fabrication.

http://wiki.fablab.is/w/index.php?title=Fab_Charter

What is a Fab lab?

Professor Neil Gershenfeld

MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms

2001 Grassroots invention group

2011 - 90 Fab Labs world wide

History

http://www.protospace.nl/fabmoments/bolcom-prints-lijmen

What is in a Fab Lab?

MAKE IT

•  Laser cutter •  Wood Router •  3d Printer •  Milling machine •  Vinyl/ sign cutter •  Basic hand tools •  Moulding and casting •  Embroidery machine

ELECTRONICS

•  Welding station •  Oscilloscope •  Power supply •  Electronic components

http://wiki.fablab.is/w/index.php?title=Portal:Equiment

What’s does a Fab Lab look like?

Local Fab Labs

BUSINESS USE Tuesday – Thursday 9:00 – 17:00

EVERYONE Friday 09:00 – 17:00 Saturday 10:00 – 18:00

http://www.fablabmanchester.org/

What can you make in a Fab Lab?

Vaccum former

New Flying Drone Bubble

http://www.protospace.nl/fabmoments/aerodynamische-kap-drone

Laser Cutter

Rings

http://www.protospace.nl/fabmoments/ring-0

3d Print another machine

RepRap Mendal component ABS Plastic

http://www.protospace.nl/fabmoments/reprap-mendel-prusa-onderdelen

CNC Milling

Colums by Michael Hansmeyer, 1mm acrylic layers

http://blog.ponoko.com/2011/09/18/incredible-cnc-milled-columns-designed-with-processing/#more-30161

Houses

Solar Decathlon Europe 2010

http://www.fablabhouse.com/ http://fablabbcn.org/

Houses

Interior

Materials

www.inventables.com

http://www.inventables.com/

Ways to use a Fab Lab

FREE

You must learn to do it yourself, and you must share you knowledge with other users.

Designs and processes must remain available for individual use, although intellectual property can be protected however you choose.

http://wiki.fablab.is/w/index.php?title=Fab_Charter

RENT

Exclusive access to machines and expertise within the Fab Lab.

Commercial activities can be incubated in Fab Labs but they should grow beyond rather than within the lab.

Licencing

Creative Commons open content licenses

A pool of content that can be copied, distributed, edited, remixed, and built upon, all within the boundaries of copyright law.

Use this as a resource yourself,

http://creativecommons.org

2. Next Industrial Revolution

Additive manufacturing on a personal scale.

Reprap

Reprap.org

Mendal prusa Darwin

3D Print

https://picasaweb.google.com/107219183520752939264/UltimakerGallery?feat=flashalbum#5622501612365797538

RepRap surpasses commercial 3d printer

http://blog.reprap.org/2011/09/tipping-point-of-print-quality-open.html

MakerBot Industries

Thing-O-matic

http://www.makerbot.com/ http://www.thingiverse.com/

Laser cutter

Ultimaker

Bigger, lighter, faster, finer…

http://wiki.ultimaker.com/Ultimaker_specs_and_features

Food Design

Food

French Cullinary Institute, Dave Arnold

Food Design

Tortilla Chips

Ceramics

Insulated Tea Cup

http://www.unfold.be/pages/projects/items/3d-printer

3D printed tissues

Live cells in a printable medium

Direct Freeform Fabrication of Seeded Hydrogels in Arbitrary Geometries

3. Factory of the Future

Distributed manufacturing.

Distributed Manufacturing

2001: Digital music files - iTunes

2004: Digital photo files - Flickr

2005: Digital video files - YouTube

2007: Digital 3d Products- Fab labs, personal 3d printers and Ponoko

http://cba.mit.edu/events/11.08.FAB7/Elley.pdf

Close

Far (China)

100 1 1,000 10,000

(prototype)

(pre mfg infrastructure)

(flexible manufacturing)

(volume efficiencies)

Units

From Chris Andersons presentation Fab7 2011

Business model

Pononko.com

http://cba.mit.edu/events/11.08.FAB7/Elley.pdf

Materials

Card Fabric Metal Plastic Rubber MDF Plywood

wwww.Ponoko.com

What can I make at Ponoko?

UFO Classic lamp

http://www.ponoko.com/design-your-own/products/ufo-classic--6251

What can I make at Ponoko?

Clock

http://www.ponoko.com/build-your-own/furniture/kirie-01-5730http://www.ponoko.com/design-your-own/products/geodes-1614

Necklace

What can I make at Ponoko?

Buy the CAD files and print your own.

http://www.ponoko.com/design-your-own/products/three-good-eggs-5602

Case study

MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface

http://new.ponoko.com/2010/10/nomoney/

Local ponoko maker hub

Razor Lab, London http://www.razorlab.co.uk/

4. Open Innovation

Crowd sourcing

Retrovirus enzyme folded to create ultimate crystal structure.

http://fold.it/ http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/zoran/NSMBfoldit-2011.pdf

Open Source Car OScar

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OScar_(open_source_car)

Open Design Now

“openness is more than a commercial and cultural issue. it’s a matter of survival.” John Thackara

“He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.” Thomas Jefferson

http://opendesignnow.org/

5. Personal Experiences

CNC Kip

CNC Kip

The Future for Leeds

• Investigate building your own rapid prototyper • Sign up to Ponoko and razor lab • Make a visit to to Manchester Fab Lab. • Set up a Leeds Fab Lab

Factories of the

Future

Jane Keats 21 September 2011 Leeds Inventors Group